Hi,
My watch is constantly connected to iPhone, draining both batteries, especially the watch battery. The Watch remains connected even if it is put on airplane mode. It only ever disconnects when the iPhone itself is on airplane mode.
I can’t work out what it is connected to, or how to disconnect it. I need my phone, so I can’t have it on airplane mode permanently.. please can you help? TIA
Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 7
I don’t think you need to do anything that extreme to keep your batteries going. That is not the idea.
Have a look in here for battery optimization tips:
Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple
How fast are your batteries draining? What happens if you turn Siri off, assuming you are not using it much?
Is it a cellular or GPS only model? In any case, I would think that most users keep the watch connected to the iphone pretty much all the time. That is normal state of affairs. Only if the iPhone is not nearby, Wi-Fi or cellular connection can be a handy backup.
Have a look in here for additional things to check. Yes it sounds like some setting or app has changed recently and is causing...maybe running less apps can help determine what it is.
https://www.payetteforward.com/why-does-apple-watch-battery-die-so-fast-fix/
Turning Siri off could be a useful test as well.
Hi, thanks for the reply. I’ve had the watch for several months and the battery has been brilliant. It’s just the last few days that it remains connected to the iPhone via some app or something, and the only way to stop the drain is to put it the phone on airplane mode, which isn’t useful obviously.
Cinema mode is on, silent mode is on, I’ve done all the battery preservation stuff.. just that little green iPhone icon that won’t turn off. I need to get that to disconnect when I want it to. It used to turn off (go red) when I disconnected the WiFi icon on the watch, but that doesn’t do it anymore.
It’s that (whatever it is) that’s draining the battery so fast I have to charge it every few hours.
Apple Watch battery draining connection
